Moonspear it's real quiet here

He still felt flustered, but he considered the question a fair one. Still, he was relieved when the matter was allowed to rest.

"I feel lucky already to have her friendship," he assured Treepie, feeling suddenly quite grateful for her as well. Now that his anxiety had passed, it was all beginning to feel quite serendipitous. He only hoped that Kinusi would feel the same. Ultimately, he knew he would want to follow her.

His heart warmed when Treepie offered up a bit of herself in turn.

"That is good," he told her, grinning widely. "I want there to be many, many children in our village." It was a desire he held even more deeply than having children of his own. They just needed to exist here! He would be happy with that. But! An idea occured to him. "I have a cousin about our age," he told her, his grin (impossibly) widening further.